I Found Two Babies in a Cardboard Box on Route 66—Then Their Missing Mother’s Warning Named the Man Asking to Take Them Home

“I don’t know.”

“Did you ever discuss custody?”

“We discussed what would happen if she kept making decisions without me.”

“What decisions?”

“Leaving.

Moving the babies.

Taking them somewhere I couldn’t see them.”

“Did you tell her you would take them if she asked for help?”